[bksvol-discuss] Re: Book chopping or other defacing
- From: "GenePoole" <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:25:53 -0800
As I've said before, I am an avid book lover and the thought of chopping up a
book has about the same appeal as chopping up my wife, should I have one. But
you can do it much easier with an exacto knife, should you so choose to do,
rather than a paper cutter, I've found.
----- Original Message -----
From: Katie Hill
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 6:21 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book chopping or other defacing
HI Carrie and all,
When I firs started chopping books I took them to Home demo. Now MJ cuts them
for me with a carpet knife. He can get as good a cut as a chopper. There are
also paper cutters available for 50 to 100 pages for not too much out there if
you plan on doing this a lot over time.
Katie Hill
You can learn a lot if you are humble enough to listen.
Lynn Lewis Warren
Email: Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
503-777-7155
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carrie Karnos
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 2:36 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book chopping or other defacing
Yes, I do the same thing to "chop" a book. I remove the cover by hand, and
then use an industrial-strength chopper that's in the office, right behind
where I was sitting in the CBS video. The chopper goes through paperbacks, even
400 page ones, like a hot knife through butter. Hardbound books are a
different story. Because the pages are thicker, I usually cut the book into
200-page sections, and then have to use most of my weight to get the blade
through the pages.
Luckily most publishers try to have the same inside margin next to the spine,
but occasionally the margin will vary and I'll chop off some words on several
pages. This is what happened when I chopped a February New York Times
bestseller, The Winter Lodge. There are probably 20 pages with words chopped
off, so I have to check those pages very carefully and type in the complete
word. Sigh! At least all the other bestsellers were okay. I'll try to get
all the easy bestsellers (and the ones people have requested) into the
collection first, then validate the harder ones (the non-fiction ones and The
Winter Lodge).
Carrie
agoldringtajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jamie,
For those who do not already know how to "chop" a book - painful
though it may seem - this is how I did it - I removed the cover as one piece
and then had the "spine" cut off by the nearest hardware store like Ace's or
Lowe's or you local store. It may seem dreadful but sometimes it not only
facilitates the use of the ADF scanner but the use of a normal scanner. In
addition, it insures that the words on the inner margins will be included
without distortion. I did it when I was scanning so that I could insure that
the whole pages would be clear.
It is a choice between having one book for myself or having a really
good copy of a book for Bookshare. And I can always keep the cover with the
loose pages to use to check the original when validating the copy. And if I
want my heirs to inherit the book they will be happy to have something from me
even in that form. I would not recommend doing it to first printings and first
editions; Nor to very valuable editions. One book I splurged and bought in
paperback to avoid harming my hardback while still getting a copy I could read
from the scan. I needed the scan to read but would not harm the good edition
and it was worth the $ to get the paperback. In most cases I would not, could
not afford to do that but I really wanted to read the book.
As for annotating your own books by highlighting or writing notes.
For books you will keep the notes will help you when you next read it or use it
for reference and may also trigger memories of a time and place - hopefully
good. You might also find you are adding notes each time you read it. Some of
my books have sections with multi-colored comments and under-linings. Some
books I have lent or given to people who were grateful for my notes. It is
different if you need to resell the books but for keepers, do yourself the
favor and highlight and make notes for your future or your offspring.
Amy in Florida - stay warm
-------Original Message-------
From: Jamie Yates
Date: 2/26/2007 12:31:28 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Book chopping or other defacing
Carrie, I still can't bring myself to highlight or
write in a textbook. My classmates have no qualms
about it but man some of my books in the past have
cost a couple hundred dollars EACH. And some
bookstores are so picky you can't sell them back with
highlighting. Of course when I buy a used one in the
bookstore I look for ones with highlighting especially
if I am pretty sure it was used on that campus.
Chances are what was important for the previous user
by that professor is going to be important to me.
But I won't mark it up myself.
I loved seeing your ADF scanner in the video and how
fast that must be but I'm not sure I could chop a book
myself. How DO you chop a book, anyway?
Jamie in Michigan
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